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Malaria Consortium welcomes UK’s increased Global Fund commitment
Donors met at the fifth replenishment conference of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria on 16-17 September in Montreal, Canada to pledge US$12.9 billion to fight the three…
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Sokoto and Zamfara launch the second season of SMC
This year, 1,735,602 children under five living in Nigeria will be given lifesaving seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) to protect them from malaria when they are most at risk, during the rainy…
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Malaria Consortium to lead USAID/PMI malaria project in Uganda
Malaria Consortium is pleased to announce that it has been selected to implement USAID/PMI’s Uganda’s Malaria Action Program for Districts Project. The contract is valued at over US$41 million and…
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ACCESS-SMC Mali, 2016
In Mali, ACCESS-SMC covers 20 medical districts targeting 1.5 million children aged 3 to 59 months. This year, new technologies for the transmission of information have been integrated as an…
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ACCESS-SMC strengthens pharmacovigilance practices in Mali
Mali was one of the first countries to introduce Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) in 2012, in an attempt to reduce rates of malaria among children under five during the high transmission…
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Communicating for a successful SMC campaign
The effectiveness of a communication strategy relies inter alia on its ability to adapt to the socio-economic, cultural, political and institutional framework in which it is implemented. In order to…
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Distribution of 30 million SMC drugs underway in the Sahel
As part of the 2016 ACCESS-SMC campaign, more than 30 million SMC treatments will be distributed to over six million children, living in seven countries[1] across the Sahel region. Distributions have…
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Solar powered mini-media kits support malaria prevention in Ethiopian communities
During a recent visit to the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (SNNPR), Ethiopia, Malaria Consortium teams visited the Meja Primary School to hear how our awareness raising project…
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School children spread the word about malaria prevention
Malaria is one of the leading causes of sickness and death for children under five in Ethiopia, with the disease particularly prevalent in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region…
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Creating community dialogue to combat malaria
Malaria is one of the most significant health threats in Ethiopia where, in spite of available preventive measures, many people remain unsure of the ways to protect themselves from the threat of this…
